Mike Andrew wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2001 21:26, Linuxism Chang wrote:
> > Is it much more difficult to write a linux virus?
> > whatever is happening to OE could just happen to any
> > "baby-friendly" email reader.
>
> It's not difficult at all, If I had a mind to, I could, and so could 90% of
> other penguins. All you need is to write bash-script. Securities and
> permissions don't come into it. A virus of the email kind is not intended to
> hack at root, it is intended to spread itself (the fundamental definition of
> a virus). So hacking at $HOME would suit me just fine thanks. I'm not out to
> kill your system , i'm out to infect it, and any other 'system' i can get at.
>
> I could attach any binary I chose, you save it to disk and click on it when
> it suits you. In some ways worse that Windows, I don't even have to call it
> (dot)exe
>
> The *only* reason why we are not infested with this stuff is because *if* I
> want my name in lights, I'm going to go for the biggest, most poplular OS
> around. I'm not going to spend all my 'creative' talent on a hardly-heard-of
> 'Linux'
>There's the glory end. Virus M$ and you do it in secret and no one knows what a
>smart fellow
your are, unless the FBI catches you. Apply the same effort toward developing a new
wrinkle in
Linux or a driver for a previously unusable piece of hardware and everyone will marvel
at your
genius. Try that with M$, and Billy the Squid's lawyers will be down your throat with
a
restraining order and demanding to know where you got the source code . Or an
alternate reason
might be that there are a lot of people who don't like M$ or the Squid.
>
>
> Moral of the story? Don't be too smug folks. There but by the grace of god
> etc.....
>
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